On 4/8/21 6:07 AM, Robert Foss wrote:
The DRM_SIL_SII8620 kconfig has a weak `imply` dependency on EXTCON, which causes issues when sii8620 is built as a builtin and EXTCON is built as a module.
The symptoms are 'undefined reference' errors caused by the symbols in EXTCON not being available to the sii8620 driver.
Signed-off-by: Robert Foss robert.foss@linaro.org Reported-by: kernel test robot lkp@intel.com
Changes since v1:
- Fix typo on comment
drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/Kconfig | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/Kconfig b/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/Kconfig index 22a467abd3e9..2289b44613af 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/Kconfig @@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ config DRM_SIL_SII8620 tristate "Silicon Image SII8620 HDMI/MHL bridge" depends on OF select DRM_KMS_HELPER
- imply EXTCON
- depends on EXTCON || !EXTCON # if EXTCON=m, this cannot be built-in depends on RC_CORE || !RC_CORE help Silicon Image SII8620 HDMI/MHL bridge chip driver.
That gives me: (on linux-next 20210409)
drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig:77:error: recursive dependency detected! drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig:77: symbol DRM_KMS_HELPER is selected by DRM_SIL_SII8620 drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/Kconfig:168: symbol DRM_SIL_SII8620 depends on EXTCON drivers/extcon/Kconfig:2: symbol EXTCON is selected by CHARGER_MANAGER drivers/power/supply/Kconfig:499: symbol CHARGER_MANAGER depends on POWER_SUPPLY drivers/power/supply/Kconfig:2: symbol POWER_SUPPLY is selected by OLPC_XO1_SCI arch/x86/Kconfig:2757: symbol OLPC_XO1_SCI depends on GPIO_CS5535 drivers/gpio/Kconfig:1156: symbol GPIO_CS5535 depends on GPIOLIB drivers/gpio/Kconfig:14: symbol GPIOLIB is selected by I2C_MUX_LTC4306 drivers/i2c/muxes/Kconfig:47: symbol I2C_MUX_LTC4306 depends on I2C drivers/i2c/Kconfig:8: symbol I2C is selected by FB_DDC drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig:63: symbol FB_DDC depends on FB drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig:12: symbol FB is selected by DRM_KMS_FB_HELPER drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig:83: symbol DRM_KMS_FB_HELPER depends on DRM_KMS_HELPER For a resolution refer to Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.rst subsection "Kconfig recursive dependency limitations"